Nevada's threat to leave Tahoe compact eases

8:01 PM,
Apr. 11, 2013

Many trees, standing among the evergreens, display their golden leaves at Lake Tahoe Oct. 30, 2012.

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Nevada's threat to leave a decades-old compact regulating development and environmental protections at Lake Tahoe has lost some bluster.

The Senate Committee on Natural Resources in a 3-2 party-line vote approved a bill Thursday repealing SB271 of the 2011 session. That law paved the way for Nevada to exit the bi-state agreement unless it could come to terms with its counterparts in ...